No, I'm mainly talking about targeting. My point is not so much about embed, but rather that, almost anything you assume you think you know about how computers work isn't necessarily true, because C targets such a wide group of platforms. Almost always when some one raises a question along the line of "No platform has ever done that right?", some one knows of a platform that has done that, and it turns out has very good reasons for doing that.
For this reason, everything is much more complicated then you first think. For me joining the WG14 has been an amazing opportunity to learn the depths of the language. C is not big but it is incredibly deep. The answer to "Why does C not just do X?" is almost always far more complicated and thought through than the one thinks.
Everyone in the wg14 who has been around for a while, knows this, and therefore assumes that even the simplest addition will cause problems, even if they cant come up with a reason why.
For this reason, everything is much more complicated then you first think. For me joining the WG14 has been an amazing opportunity to learn the depths of the language. C is not big but it is incredibly deep. The answer to "Why does C not just do X?" is almost always far more complicated and thought through than the one thinks.
Everyone in the wg14 who has been around for a while, knows this, and therefore assumes that even the simplest addition will cause problems, even if they cant come up with a reason why.